Nandalal Weerasinghe
P. Nandalal Weerasinghe is a Sri Lankan economist and banker who is also currently serving as the 17th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. A career officer in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, serving as its chief economist and senior deputy governor. He has also served as an alternative executive director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC representing the countries such as Sri Lanka, Bhutan, India and Bangladesh from January 2010 to August 2012. He has also previously acted as a chairman of the monetary policy committee and foreign reserve management committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Nandalal Weerasinghe | |
|---|---|
| නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ | |
| Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka | |
| Assumed office 7 April 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Ajith Nivard Cabraal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dickwella, Matara |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Education | Rahula College, Matara Ananda College, Colombo |
| Alma mater | University of Kelaniya Australian National University |
| Profession | Economist, Banker, Central Banker, Researcher |
In April 2022, he was approached to replace Ajith Nivard Cabraal as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka with the latter decided to resign due to mounting pressures from the 2022 Sri Lankan protests.